NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)

1552 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260M

0.308 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX +1172%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 200M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

950 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

60.80GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

14

SM Count

-

112

Shading Units

1664

56

TMUs

104

16

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

30.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

308.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

148W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

GM204

N10E-GT

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

5.2

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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